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Fibs, Fronts & Fixers: The Hidden Machinery Behind Mohan Bhagwat’s Visit - Savera
A Savera Report | Part One Fibs, Fronts & Fixers The Hidden Machinery Behind Mohan Bhagwat’s US Visit “RSS works only in Bharat. But it is possible that we will be able to connect you to some like-min...
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'Swimming in the noise', Gaurav's proposed film, is set in Mumbai and South Maharashtra, where threatened Indian Ocean humpback dolphins and Indo-Pacific finless porpoises survive in increasingly polluted, noisy and shrinking coastal habitats.
The Save Our Seas Foundation is thrilled to announce that our inaugural Ocean Storytelling Film Grant has been awarded to Gaurav Patil for a film project that will tell a story of deep conservation urgency and impact.
The winner of the Ocean Storytelling Film Grant is announced!
The inaugural Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) Ocean Storytelling Film Grant (OSTG) has been awarded to a film project that will tell a story of deep conservation urgency. By providing funding and ment...
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Heads up! Dr Sylvia Karpagam, who has been battling savarna vegetarian trolls for years on twitter, has a book out published by Harper Collins - The Meat of the Matter: How the Politics of Food Shapes Our Health An excellent look at casteism affecting food politics. www.amazon.in/Meat-Matter-...
Buy The Meat of The Matter: How the Politics of Food Shapes Our Health Book Online at Low Prices in India | The Meat of The Matter: How the Politics of Food Shapes Our Health Reviews & Ratings - Amazo...
Amazon.in - Buy The Meat of The Matter: How the Politics of Food Shapes Our Health book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. Read The Meat of The Matter: How the Politics of Food Shapes Our He...
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The government of India let the last Israeli war criminal the Foundation pointed out to them walk, they'll let this one walk too. The regime supports Israel wholeheartedly, one genocidal fascist ethnostate to another.
Scroll@scroll.in · 6d agoThe Hind Rajab Foundation did not identify the soldier. It said that the soldier “may have been involved” in war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10951... #IsraelGazaconflict
Israel created a think tank called the “Hanover Institute for Public Policy” to influence chatbots to shape the discourse according to Israeli propaganda. In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least 100 reports on issues of Palestine. responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influ...
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least 100 articles that appear tailor-made to influence chatbots
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'The police took away two of Ravi’s phones, his son’s laptop, and the laptop and iPad of a colleague who happened to be at home and is not an accused in the case. The cops had a judicial magistrate’s order. Refused to give hash value of the devices' While Adani gets off US charges w/ a $10bn bribe.
Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · last wk.'Gujarat cops (accompanied by Delhi police) came to journalist Ravi Nair’s home over a story he did with The Washington Post on Adani. An FIR has been lodged against Ravi, but not The Washington Post, based on a complaint by an Adani Group staffer.'
Who was on trial? India’s leading women wrestlers or #BrijBhushanSharanSingh? The wrestlers fought for an FIR, protested on the streets, testified in court & relived their trauma under cross-examination. Yet it often seemed as though they were in the dock Subscribe to read: article-14.com
Every couple of weeks I poke my head back onto bluesky, try to catch up with people, am hit with a solid wall of US-related reposts, and then go away again. Sometimes I go over to twitter just to try to catch up with India discourse, but there I'm just hit by bots. I really miss Indian social media.
#AbhijeetDipke went against commonsensical, mainstream Ambedkarite politics by emphasising the need for demands that are not caste-based so that a wider range of people could be brought together. scroll.in/article/1094... He did not want to be limited to a Dalit leader. By Sumit Samos
I've been doing a new project w/a grad student collaborator & we got interested in Tagore's short stories. (Alongside everything else, he was a world-class short story writer!) We made a collection of them; it's the largest set currently online (I think): scalar.lehigh.edu/literature-o...
Literature of Colonial South Asia: Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore: A Collection
A Collection of Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore in English Translation
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From Goa’s trance scene to festivals near Gaza, this essay examines how Israeli rave culture has borrowed Hindu imagery and Indian spaces while offering escape from occupation. A provocative look at culture, denial and the politics of looking away. www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels...
Israel’s Rave Music Drowns Out the Sound of its Victims
For decades, a combination of EDM and drug culture have helped to numb the horror of occupation, apartheid, and genocide.
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Films advancing majoritarian politics, historical distortions & govt narratives are repeatedly rewarded at the National Film Awards these days. Latest example: 3 awards to the propaganda film Article 370 announced this month, writes Anna M M Vetticad article-14.com/post/how-the...
How The National Film Awards Became A Showcase For The Modi Era’s Favourite Narratives
The honours for Article 370, a Hindi film aligned with the Hindutva project, are the latest evidence of a decline years in the making: an awards system willing to recognise propaganda, historical dist...
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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
Modi government took over trusted helpline for distressed children. Two years later, it’s struggling
Modi government took over trusted helpline for distressed children. Two years later, it’s struggling
Fewer children are dialling Childline for help in many states. Activists and staff say there is a sharp decline in the quality of assistance provided.
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Here is a warning from those on the ground and sceptical of the Jantar Mantar protest. Muslims please do not go for the march today. You will be arrested and charged under terrorism laws. UAPA. No one will stand for you. Sending love.
Shane Hollander, talking about Ilya Rozanov, probably
Pandy Fackler@thatbrenna.bsky.social · 2mo agoDomestic partner implies the existence of feral partners
Mona Khalil, one of Lebanon's leading conservationists has died following an Israeli attack on her home, she had dedicated her life to protecting the country's turtles www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon
Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country
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Hello #IndiaSky. I’m trying to find out whether public parks around India close in the afternoons. (In the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, they close between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.) What is it like in your town?
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
I vote that smut authors make vigific a thing for describing cock, and also that we immediately plunge into a debate of how it is pronounced ala gif
arr@arr.bsky.social · 3mo agoenglish isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
Does shaming people for pirating something ever work? Like, has anyone ever had that conversation with someone and seen them change?
I am disappointed but unsurprised to see a sexual harasser in the table of contents.
Sandeep Bakshi@sandeepbak.bsky.social · 3mo agoA superb queer zine - highly recommended for anyone interested in queer studies and oppression. Across the Nala: A Queer Dalit Bahujan Zine of Stories from Delhi. I was lucky enough to receive it from Dr Dhiren Borisa!
A superb queer zine - highly recommended for anyone interested in queer studies and oppression. Across the Nala: A Queer Dalit Bahujan Zine of Stories from Delhi. I was lucky enough to receive it from Dr Dhiren Borisa!
These are familiar points to anyone who has been in the cultural appropriation trenches, but specifically the claiming of the past while sneering at the present peoples is what Orientalists tried to do with the Aryans vs dirty Hindoos and Mohamedans.
Yiannis@yiannisbab.bsky.social · 3mo agoNobody asked for this but I've done it anyway - on the Odyssey and why this sort of thing is particularly annoying. A few key points will follow in the thread.
Few things fill me with as much white hot jealousy as hearing people talking behind someone's back about how worried they are about that someone and how to help them. Some people are so loved and cared for.
I never forget that this asshole is a genocider, but I do sometimes forget the duration of time he has been permitted to be a pathetic loser. Journalists really need to find stronger words to make fun of him. Humiliate him.
Scroll@scroll.in · 3mo agoThe press body said that is a ‘regrettable fact’ that the prime minister has not addressed any open press conference so far in his 12-year-long tenure. scroll.in/latest/10930...
Bit disappointed that Arunava Sinha doesn't treat the main point of genAI writing as being plagiarism. "Is the machine creative" is a question also asked of the mechanised loom.
Scroll@scroll.in · 3mo agoIf winning entries are partly or wholly AI-authored, then it's clearly perceived as being good, & even better than, many of the human-authored entries. scroll.in/article/1093... So, should literature now be judged on the quality of the work, irrespective of how it was produced? By Arunava Sinha
